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Apple Seeds Golden Master of OS X Mountain Lion to Developers — “200 New Features” Mountain Lion slide shown at WWDC — Apple released the Golden Master (GM) version of OS X Mountain Lion to developers today. The “golden master” designation indicates that this version of the software … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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AppleInsider, The Verge and MacRumors
| Al Sacco / CIO.com: |
RIM CEO on What Went Wrong and the Future of BlackBerry — In an exclusive Q&A, CIO.com's Al Sacco chats with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins on the current state of BlackBerry and how it fell from grace, what the company is doing to ensure things in Waterloo don't get worse, and the product delay problems that have plagued RIM.
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The Verge, Engadget, Forbes, Digits, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, The Droid Guy, BerryReview.com and MobileSyrup.com
| Ian Austen / New York Times: |
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| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
GitHub finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz — GitHub is ready to take a huge step forward. After successfully bootstrapping its operation since 2008, the open-source code hosting site is set to announce Monday that it has accepted $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz … | Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper's ship for a $100M Series A — After half a decade of preaching about the virtues of bootstrapping, the GitHub founders are finally getting in bed with a major VC firm to the tune of $100 million — that's $1 million per employee at the still-small startup.
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The Verge, The GitHub Blog, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal and Wired. Thanks:@jolieodell
| Brad Reed / BGR: |
Microsoft shows off USB stick capable of bringing Windows 8 to older machines — Call it “Windows 8 on a stick.” During Microsoft's Digital Worldwide Partner Conference on Monday, Microsoft showed off a USB stick that doesn't just help users bring their personal data to different PCs …
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Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile and The Verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 launching late October, RTM ‘on track’ for August — Microsoft's Tami Reller has announced that Windows 8 will Release to Manufacturing (RTM) in the first week on August, with a release in late October to retail stores. Speaking at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Canada …
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Computerworld, The Windows Blog, SlashGear, ZDNet, CNET, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, Geek.com, VG247, Examiner, PC World, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld Australia, ReadWriteWeb, Techland, TechEye, TechNet Blogs, WebProNews, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, ZDNet, I4U News, Liliputing and Business Insider
| Eric DeMenthon / PadBlogger: |
Bringing Craigslist Back — I've been wrestling with whether to bring back Craigslist listings in the search results. I've found a way to include them that I'm told is legally kosher since it doesn't touch their servers at all, but it still seems somewhat dickish to go against their wishes in this …
| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce.com to Buy GoInstant — Salesforce.com is expected to buy start-up GoInstant for more than $70 million, people familiar with the matter said, as the big provider of online business software beefs up its customer-service offerings. — A deal for the roughly two-year-old company …
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| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Google Chrome 21 beta can interact with cameras, mics, and game controllers — The latest beta version of Google Chrome adds two new APIs that allow web developers to do a few interesting things. They can write web apps that will use your computer's mic or camera without a plugin.
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Engadget, Google Chrome Blog, Ubergizmo and The Next Web
| Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software: |
Software Inventory — Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust you start to see little piles of things that you do understand.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Verizon confirms locked bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S III — Over the weekend we heard reports that Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy S III had a locked bootloader, which makes rooting and otherwise hacking the device much more difficult. We reached out to Verizon for more details …
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eWeek, BGR, Examiner, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Gadgetsteria, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Android News, Rumours …, IntoMobile, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile and CNET
| Jeff Bertolucci / PC World: |
Google Nexus 7 Tablet on Sale: Staples Takes Pre-Orders — Staples says it will carry the Google Nexus 7 tablet in its brick-and-mortar stores later this month, and that Google's 7-inch Android tablet is now available for pre-sale on its website. — The office-supply retailer's site …
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Business Wire, CNET, IntoMobile, Engadget, ABCNEWS, MobileSyrup.com, ITworld.com, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Los Angeles Times and ZDNet
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Sexy Payments Startup Stripe Swipes $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel And More — White-hot payments startup Stripe has closed a $20 million Series B round of financing, led by General Catalyst with existing A-list investors Sequoia, Peter Thiel (personally) and angels Chris Dixon, Aaron Levie and Elad Gil also following on.| Juha Saarinen / Wired: |
Kim Dotcom's Extradition Hearing Postponed Until March 2013 — In this Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, comments after he was granted bail and released in Auckland, New Zealand. The U.S. wants to extradite Dotcom from New Zealand … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
AT&T adds more LTE markets, but still struggles to catch Verizon — AT&T has expanded its 4G LTE wireless service to six more markets, the company said in a note to reporters. The company now offers the service in 47 markets around the U.S. — (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon)
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Here's How Often AT&T, Sprint, And Verizon Each Hand Over Users' Data To The Government — When it comes to modern law enforcement surveillance, no one watches the wiretappers. — The vast majority of law enforcement's demands that phone carriers and Internet services hand over users' private data … | Reuters: |
Kleiner bid for arbitration in sexism suit rebuffed — (Reuters) - A California judge on Monday tentatively rejected venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC's bid to move a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by one of its own partners into arbitration.
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CNET, Bits, VentureBeat, Business Insider, AllThingsD and PE Hub Blog
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Lady Gaga's social network “Little Monsters” opens its doors to everyone — We told you about Lady Gaga and her jump into social networking with the site “Little Monsters.” The site has been in private beta, but users all over the globe can now sign up. — Invites had been trickling …
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Business Insider and Shiny Shiny
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Twitter follows Facebook down the walled garden path — Twitter set off alarm bells across the web in recent weeks when it ended its partnership with LinkedIn and reiterated its warning that it would be cracking down on the terms of its API. The company didn't offer any explanation … | Tristan Nitot / Beyond the Code: |
About the future of Thunderbird — Jb Piacentino — Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Jb Piacentino, the managing Director of Thunderbird, following the recent Thunderbird announcement. — TN : Hi Jb, I read on the Web that Thunderbird is dead. Is it true or is the rumor of Thunderbird's death greatly exaggerated?| Anthony Aarons / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Wins U.K. Apple Ruling Over ‘Not As Cool’ Galaxy Tablet — Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. (AAPL) as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn't “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. — The Galaxy tablet …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds two more Android tablet makers to its patent-licensing list — Summary: Add Aluratek and Colby Electronics to the list of Android and Chrome OS tablet/PC makers who are paying MIcrosoft patent royalties. — Follow @maryjofoley — Microsoft has added yet two more companies … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
It's Official: Pinterest, SF Mayor Ed Lee Confirm Move To San Francisco, Lee Opens Pinterest Acct In Celebration — Pinterest is pinning its name on a new office door: the company today officially announced that it is moving its offices from Palo Alto to San Francisco, confirming our reports … | Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: |
Reddit lifts its ban on “The Atlantic” — The Atlantic has returned to Reddit. — A month after the social news site kicked out the news magazine and dozens of other sites —including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Discovery News—for spam, Reddit has welcomed many back into the warm embrace of its monster traffic, with little fanfare.
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